Star in the Dust 1956

Runtime

80 mins

Language

English

English

Sheriff Jorden of Gunlock sets a sundown hanging for Sam Hall, who shot three cattle‑land farmers. The casino odds are 8‑to‑3 that Hall won’t survive. Cattlemen plan a rescue, while farmers aim to lynch him before help arrives. Hall schemes an escape with his lover Nellie, and Jorden seeks the mastermind, suspecting his future brother‑in‑law.

Sheriff Jorden of Gunlock sets a sundown hanging for Sam Hall, who shot three cattle‑land farmers. The casino odds are 8‑to‑3 that Hall won’t survive. Cattlemen plan a rescue, while farmers aim to lynch him before help arrives. Hall schemes an escape with his lover Nellie, and Jorden seeks the mastermind, suspecting his future brother‑in‑law.

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In the late 1800s in the western town of Gunlock, gunslinger Sam Hall, who has murdered three farmers, is scheduled to be hanged at sundown. Sheriff Bill Jorden faces opposition from the cattlemen’s association, who had hired Hall to kill the farmers as part of a plot to acquire more grazing land. A group of farmers, fearing that the cattlemen will spring the killer before he is hanged, want the sheriff to hang Hall as quickly as possible. Fearing violence between ranchers and farmers, Jorden tries to call for additional help but discovers the telegraph line serving the town has been cut. Informed that the farmers are headed to town to kill Hall, Bill meets them and reasons with them to allow the law to handle Hall’s punishment. On the morning of the hanging, Jorden brings out Hall, threatening to shoot the prisoner himself if anyone tries to stop the hanging but before Hall is executed, the ranchers set the gallows on fire, precipitating a gun battle between opposing factions. Hall is eventually hanged and the cattlemen are brought to justice.

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